Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for the south east of England, has featured in this blog from time to time. He is quoted beautifully in yesterday’s Financial Times, in a piece by Jean Eaglesham and George Parker on the Conservative party’s problems with Europe. Specifically, the EU appears to be going in a more liberal direction (remember all those French socialist criticisms of the constitutional treaty), in which case why should the Conservatives oppose it?

Daniel Hannan confessed this:

“People almost always fit the facts to their existing prejudices, rather than the other way round.” He is starting to explain a lot.

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David Rennie in the Daily Telegraph blog section reported a perfect example of the kind. A story went round that the EU was going to require the renaming of Bombay mix, because the city in India is now called Mumbai. He investigated: read his findings here.